This week's CRC Daily topic, medical staff governance, is an area where MSPs' knowledge of both medical staff bylaws and accreditors' requirements makes them a valuable resource for their organization. Below is a recent Medical Staff Briefing column addressing impaired and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
With a projected physician shortage reaching as high as 90,000 by 2025, the country will need to increase the number of physicians it produces each year. According to data from 2012, more than a quarter of the workforce was 60 years old or older.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
A Medscape survey of more than 3,000 female physicians found that 53% held a leadership position. Of those in leadership positions, 40% said their work and personal lives were balanced and 57% said their work gets in the way of their personal lives. However, 72% said they were very or somewhat...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
With patient satisfaction surveys factoring more heavily into Medicare payments, hospitals are making more of an effort to improve the bedside manner of its physicians. Research has shown that hospitals that encourage physicians to be more responsive to patients are more likely to have higher...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
"[A]s we enter into clinical practice, physicians face the burdens of documentation and regulatory requirements that eat into the time that we should be spending on building relationships with our patients, which contributes to an ongoing erosion of our compassion."
- Rebekah...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 37
Continuous readiness is your best preparation for an accreditation survey—but how do you prepare? By knowing your processes and being able to talk about them with the surveyors. It is also helpful to know the accreditors’ standards that apply to medical staff and credentialing. As the MSP, you...
The revised Conditions of Participation (CoP) allow certain nonphysician practitioners, when determined to be eligible for appointment by the governing body, to have privileges like other medical staff members. These nonphysician practitioners may be advanced practice registered nurses...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
The world of board certification is complicated by the fact that many physicians subspecialize and many specialty societies offer subspecialty boards or “certificates of added qualifications.” It is often a challenge for these physicians to maintain board certification in their original board...
